It had to be about 96 or 97 when I was up on the yard going to Alabama A&M University. There was an urban clothing store that sat off in the cut over by G’s Country Kitchen, behind the old Top Line tires where CVS is now located. I was going to cop some new DADA Supreme shirts and some Delinquents shirts. I think the guy that was running the store was from Jersey. You could get all the good reading material like Niggas to Gods, the Willie Lynch Speech, and Soul on Ice by Elderich Cleaver. I’m talking about a black man’s heaven here. I go to the counter to purchase my vintage North side survival kit of aforementioned items when the Slave Kamp cd jumped out at me. It read “Alabama’s Most controversial Rap Group”. So it too was added to my group of purchases. I heard tales of the southern backwoods that didn’t seem like the normal rap coming out at that time. It was more country, more basement than a wine cellar, but all the time it was Alabama Hip Hop. My potna G-Mane was part of that group. To see him still putting it down for the Flo is remarkable. Florence is somewhat of a ghost town from what it was a decade ago. You had police operations like “Copy Cat” that took almost 100 people from a neighborhood to state pens, helicopters and special ops repelling into the neighborhood, and national guard troops patrolling the streets. Crack was a commodity and the hustlers weren’t scared to move it. You had the murder of Chris Stienbeck that went unsolved and tore a community apart. The West Side and East Side lost businesses, so now a drive down Mobile Street is accompanied by the sounds of the souls which once made the street vibrant and the heart of the culture. I have sat in on some of the sessions for this project and I’m proud to have the access I have acquired to see this project come together. Sunday on Da Porch is from some one who has survived the Shoal’s decadent 90’s to school the younger generations on a time when hustlers chilled out for a Sunday on the Porch. Production by Mick Vegas.

On behalf of Slow Motion Soundz I would like to take this time to say we are neck deep into trying to find out what happened with hard drive HSV35810. We did have some pieces that didn’t make the actual cut of Huntsville International. We hid them under a secret file called Chase Rogers . Remember these are the songs that didn’t make the cut. I repeat this is not the H.I.P. It’s just something for us to feel like we delivered something to the world even through our time of hardship. Upeeple will not win.

THESE ARE THE LEAKS NOT THE HIP SONGZ. HARD DRIVE 35810 IS MISSING!!!!!!!

A lot of you were asking what was going on on Twitter last night at the studio. When I arrived at the studio H.I.P. Security officials were on hand performing a formal investigation in the disappearacne of hard drive HSV35810, the drive that held the H.I.P. project. We are at a level of“Black” the highest level of security and intelligence at SMS Headquarters. I can confirm that artist who have worked at the Speed of Sound studios files are safe and in a secure location. (Sunday on the Porch files by G-Mane have been moved to an undisclosed location due to it’s importance to Hip Hop). Jimmy Heart is on the scene and we are waiting for live reports concerning the disappearance or Hard Drive HSV35810. I was also told that an official press conference will take place. (TBA) We ask that your prayers go out to Slow Motion Soundz and all those involved. Stay Tuned to your twitter accounts and emails. As soon I get more information on this I will pass it on to you. I can also confirm strange emails and phone calls over the past few months. I have been granted permission to leak the name of the prime suspects at this time. UPEEPLE. UPEEPLE is an orgnaization we have been aware of for a few years now. They are a group of people who do not believe in our quest at Slow Motion Soundz. These guys and gals are considered a part of a larger scheme to take down hip hop to levels of no return. We at Slow Motion Soundz along with Huntsville International Project officials are working diligently to find those files. Hip Hop depends on it. Thank you. More to come.